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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Transparent gkrellm

Hi,

How am I supposed to make gkrellm transparent? Somehow Google isn't very clear on this point .

whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: Transparent gkrellm

Have not used gkrellm for a long time but there used to be a theme called invisible which worked for gtk desktops but could never get it to work with kde4

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: Transparent gkrellm

Have not used gkrellm for a long time but there used to be a theme called invisible which worked for gtk desktops but could never get it to work with kde4

Ah... That's exactly what I have in mind: transparent gkrellm with kde4 .

kotyz

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Registered: 2007-06-24

Posts: 28

Re: Transparent gkrellm

I use my own modified invisible skin for gkrellm under kde 3.5.10 (kdemod-legacy) and it was transparent until now. It stopped working properly after yesterdays pacman -Syu & reboot. Now it looks exactly the same as under kde 4 -> no transparency. I tried recompile gkrellm package from abs, no change. Could this problem be caused by qtcurve-gtk upgrade?

kotyz

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Registered: 2007-06-24

Posts: 28

Re: Transparent gkrellm

Yes, the problem was in qtcurve-gtk, version 1.7.2-1 fixed it.

mckooper

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Registered: 2007-09-19

Posts: 3

Re: Transparent gkrellm

I finally figured out a reasonable workaround for transparent gkrellm under kde4!  The problem is nicely described here http://everydaylht.com/howtos/eyecandy/ … -machines/

There's a nifty kde plugin called "Scripted Image Wallpaper Plugin" (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=115147) that lets you select the wallpaper using a script (in AUR at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33333)

Here's the script I'm using which selects a random image from a directory, uses feh to set the root image and then returns the image filename for KDE:

#!/bin/bash

_imagedir=/home/user/pictures/desktops/
_image=${_imagedir}$(ls "$_imagedir" | shuf -n1)

feh --bg-scale "$_image"
echo "$_image"

The plugin allows you to run the script on a timer, so every XX minutes you get a new background, the root is updated automatically and gkrellm looks perfect!

FYI, the "--bg-scale" feh option seems to correspond nicely to the "Scaled" option in KDE.  "--bg-max" should be the same as "Scaled, keep proportions", but isn't.